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In America, we call them “Party Platforms.” In the UK they’re still called “Manifestos.” And if you’re running someone like Jeremy Corbyn, why not?

This week on the United Kingdom’s Most Trusted Podcast®, James and Toby dive into the buffet that is the Conservative Party manifesto, which Mr. Delingpole finds indigestible but Mr. Young finds tasty. But that’s just the main course.

Also on the menu this week we have an appetizer of remedial driver’s training for “Speedy” Delingpole, side dishes of movie reviews, Toby gets a Twitter mobbing and Sacha Baron Cohen attacks free speech. For dessert, what else but a little Greta à la mode?

Our manifesto is simply another week of great podcasting. Our promises count for something.

Toby Young is a British journalist and educationalist. Young is the author of How to Lose Friends and Alienate People, the tale of his stint in New York as a contributing editor at Vanity Fair magazin…[more]